Compassion Stressed At AIDS Ceremony
28/5/08
Ten women and children, wearing white masks and dressed as skeletons, danced waving a silver cloth with the words “AIDS,” “prostitution” and “child abuse.” This dance presentation opened the AIDS Candlelight Memorial program at the Good Shepherd Convent in Quezon City, northeast of Manila, on May 18. Sister Mary Soledad Perpinan organized the event. She works with the Third World Movement Against the Exploitation of Women (TW-MAE-W), an NGO that runs shelters and drop-in centers for prostituted women and their children. Now in its 25th year, the Candlelight Memorial held annually on the third Sunday of May is a program of the Global Health Council, which describes itself as an international alliance “dedicated to saving lives by improving health throughout the world.” About 100 Good Shepherd nuns, residents of TW-MAE-W shelters, staff of that and other NGOs, and members of a local Christian community attended the Quezon City commemoration.
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Tags: Children, Christianity, HIV/Aids, Sex Trade, The Philippines, Womens Rights